Like so often with high-tech, the wifi at UCL's Institute of Making didn't quite deliver what was hoped. So it was a rather bored audience of academics and journos that waited an hour to hear Keir Starmer talk about how artificial intelligence can save Britain's economy. He was late starting, too - which suggests a digital watch might make a good starting place for the new revolution.
No 10 handed out some blurb that boasted - and I promise this is not a made-up quote - "today's plan mainlines AI into the veins of this enterprising nation". This, presumably, is how PMs will talk in the future when ChatGPT writes press releases at a fraction of the cost of humans.
Starmer finally stood up to a backdrop of white robotic tools resembling a vast dental surgery. He started his speech with a heart-warming story of how AI had helped a stroke victim, Deb Kelly, be treated in just three minutes. He had been chatting with Deb that very morning (not over wifi, one assumes).
Now he was going to "turbocharge growth" by making the UK an "AI superpower". The groaning cliches reminded me of the Thick of It episode in which the minister declared: "I call app Britain!", with the slogan: "They might have the silicon chip but we have the silicon chap... and, of course, chapesses."
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